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  1. benadam1974

    General Was Jesus God?

    The Greek word variously translated as “exising” or “being” in Phil 2:6 (huparchon) is a present active participle with Christ as its antecedent. Hence, some translate the verse as Christ “who, existing“ “or being in the form of God” (HCSB; KJV; JUB). Yet, most mistranslate the Greek in the...
  2. benadam1974

    General Whose throne? Which God/god?

    The Hebrew lacks a vocative form of the word God. That’s why the Greek sometimes employs what’s known as the “nominative for vocative” rule, aka “nominative of address.” This is verified by the LXX translations and NT Greek where O THEOS (in the nominative case with the nominative article) is...
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    General Grammatical Confusion!

    Just because logos is a Greek masculine noun, doesn’t make it a person. We should not confuse grammatical gender with biological gender, e.g., the word child in Greek is neuter but it doesn't mean we're talking about a thing or an it. That's why all English translations from the Greek [not the...